Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECKThere’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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I want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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